Equality

While the NI Executive continues to block the Good Jobs Employment Bill, workers across England, Wales and Scotland will soon begin to enjoy many of many of the same provisions contained within that Bill. Speaking as the Labour government’s Employment Rights Act 2025 begins to take effect across GB...

The Northern Ireland Committee of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions repeats its call for the NI Executive to bring forward the Good Jobs Employment Bill before MLAs leave Stormont for the summer recess. We reiterate that there is time for our elected MLAs to debate and scrutinise the legislation in...

Today is International School Meals Day. Education support workers and teachers believe every child and young person should be able to access nutritious meals at school. Since our 2022 delegate conference, it has been NIC-ICTU’s policy to support young people and their families’ budgets with high...

On International Womens Day, the trade union movement calls on MLAs to support the Good Jobs Bill. Polling shows major support for new Employment Rights laws from NI Assembly The Irish Congress of Trade Unions has written to every MLA to urge support for new rights for workers in Northern Ireland...

A LucidTalk poll published last week in the Belfast Telegraph revealed that just one in four people think Stormont has improved their lives since its restoration two years ago. The same people were asked their opinion about aspects of the Executive’s proposed Good Jobs Bill. This legislation will...

On 25 November, trade unions supported by civil society marked the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women and Girls by asking: ‘Where’s our safe leave?’ and raising concerns about the long delay in providing paid leave for workers dealing with domestic abuse. Trade unions...

Today a group of youth organisations, LGBTQIA+ charities and education unions representing thousands of teaching and non-teaching staff across Northern Ireland have condemned the Education Minister’s removal of guidance for supporting trans youth in education, urging him to reinstate the guidance in...